Rain, Rain, Then Rain Some More

It rained hard during the night. It was still raining this morning. The fellows across the road working on the construction project worked all day in the rain. They were making walls, then standing them up and bracing them upright. They worked right through with rain jackets and hard hats on. I suppose if you live on this side of the Cascade Mountains, you would be used to working in the rain. On the east side, the dry side, the work crews would probably have been sent home on a day like today.

It rained all afternoon. We drove into town, to the Safeway store in Junction City which is only about four miles from here. It's a very nice store, but laid out exactly backwards from the one we had been shopping at all summer. Very confusing. It was still raining when we got home and started to unload the groceries.

Then it really started to rain. The wind picked up as well. The rain was very loud as it hit Auntie Violet's roof and poured down the windows. The rain late this afternoon made what had come earlier seem like light showers. The only thing about the rain that I like is the news I hear that it is raining in eastern Washington as well.

We have split loyalties in our home over this year's World Series. Forry is rooting for San Francisco and the Giants as they are the West Coast team. I am rooting for the Kansas City Royals for a couple of reasons. The first is that the Spokane Indians, our local team for all the years we lived in Spokane, was a farm team for the Royals. Secondly, the Brett Brothers owned the local team (and the hockey team and the soccer team) and were definitely hands-on owners. And lastly, the National Rural Health Association was headquartered in Kansas City (they still have their back office there) when I was President and I was able to attend more than one game while there on NRHA business.

Anyway, I am much happier about the score of tonight's game than I was last night's game. And it's still raining.